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July 10, 2009
FREAKANGELS 0061
Oh god why am i awake
I WILL TELL YOU WHY! Because it is Friday, it's just gone noon, and it's FREAKANGELS, all for free!
July 9, 2009
Anna May Wong Must Die
Extracts from Anna Chen's "illustrated personal journey through the life and crimes of Hollywood legend Anna May Wong", as presented on May 26 2009.
Si Spurrier's SHORT AND CURLIES #1
The next movie I write will be Jurassic Park 4: ADAMZOIC, in which a group of committed Creationists sneak onto a dinosaur-infested Island in an attempt to prove that humans and slavering proto-avian carnivores can live in harmony, as in Eden. The film will be 3 hours long; will feature multiple variations on the theme of Cute Naked People being disembowelled while trying to sing hymns; will include at least one incidence of punning, based on the words "pray" and "prey"; and wil
July 8, 2009
Talking Of The Death Of Journalism
I've been so busy today that I've not had time to follow this huge story, and I guess it hasn't broken internationally yet:
Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.
The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who ill
No "In Russia Newspaper Reads You" Comments, Thanks
According to English Russia, a store has started running a local newspaper on its shopping bags. Which is, I suppose, one way to sidestep the whole "newsprint is dying" thing.
The Plumber
Talking of horror masquerading as comedy. Grant Morrison played me the radio version of this piece in 1999 and it lived with me all day. This later TV version is just as warped. Written by the magnificent Chris Morris.
Eels
This just popped back up on YouTube (the BBC periodically sniff it out and issue a takedown). Before it goes away again, have a look. THE MIGHTY BOOSH was an almost painfully uneven show, and in general musical comedy gives me the burning shits. But this was a moment of brilliance on a par with the better LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN conceptions. LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN was a horror show that was sometimes funny, and this has the same kind of vibe. So I put this bit up here, in case you haven't seen it
HUMAN CENTIPEDE
Suffused with young Cronenberg and Yuzna's SOCIETY:
Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has a demented vision for mankind's future existence. He wants to remove human beings' kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. When two stranded female Americans arrive at his luxury home-cum-hospital looking for help, his long-gestating plan swiftly moves into chilling action with a shocking force. Kidnappi
Like A DVR For Life
Clayton Cubitt: I think photography is moving towards seamlessness. The future of photography won't be about capturing a decisive moment by timing a shot perfectly. Cameras will capture everything – thirty or sixty frames per second. Then you choose. Like a DVR for life.
Tokion Magazine: Doesn't that sound like cheating?
Clayton Cubitt: If you think a photographer's creativity comes from their shutter finger, then it's cheating. But if you think the creativity comes from the
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